inkycatz

The fortune teller lay in the alley, her arm covered in bangles and bruises while clinging to a bloodstained monkey. She whispered just three words before she shuffled off this mortal coil...

Welcome to the April Woot-off, which caught only some of you off guard! How do you do it? Inkycatz and Pemberducky have decided to join forces to create a super-noir detective team to finally get to the bottom of this mystery. WE WANT TO KNOW.

Part 1:
What we need from you are the clues to help crack this case - your tips and tricks for predicting woot-offs!

Part 2:
What were those three words?

Oh fear not - you will be judged (seriously, you will be SO judged). Not just by us, but in the unlikely event of a tie* by whoever happens to be available on our instant work messengers at the time (we work with interesting people). We're looking for your creative best (which is not always accurate with reality), so break your tea leaves, gaze into the stars, read your woot-oscope, and share with us your clues! If you show us you've got what it takes, you can at least earn the bragging rights of "Cat & Duck's Investigative Assistant" (or something more clever) to put in your signature! ;)

But you'll have to hurry and think under pressure - we've only got until the end of April's Woot-off to collect clues and evidence! After the woot-off is done, come back and see what we think!

theant

part 1: find last woot-off, add 1 month, adjust for a mid-week (exclude weekends) tending toward 5 weeks, rather than 4 weeks since previous woot-off. Consider last X woot-off's to determine length (1 day, 3 day, etc...) Minor adjustment in woot-off length also made for # of sold-out woots during previous month. and again for woot's that seemed to qualify as "woot killers" - woot-off will be shorter if a lot of sell-outs, and longer with a lot of woot-killers. -woot killers are defined as items that did not seem to sell as fast or in high a quanity as woit seems to predict.
Woot-off more likely to start on a tuesday or wednesday and not often on a monday. same for friday. almost never a woot off on friday, and less likely but possible on a thursday. Then I check my pay-schedule and work-schedule and assume it will happen when I am broke and have to work.

theant

The woman sits in front of her crystal ball, bangles clicking and chiming. She waves her hands in front of the mists that swirl within the glass. An image seems to form and jerks the old lady from her contemplations.

Part2 : "bag of OH CRAP!"

and falls over dead from the shock of actually being able to predict the occurrence of that ever elusive magical item.

okham

Part 1: I have found woot-offs tend to occur approximately 6 weeks after a solar flare that endangers the earth. To celebrate their internet failing, Mayans used bags of hearts during their woot-offs instead of Bunnies Ogling Carrots.

panthiest

Part 1: There is a concrete duck-blind constructed on the roof of a building opposite a certain business. Three highly trained men (or women, *it's a secret to everybody*) wait in that blind day and night with binoculars to read the lips of their targets.

sellbuyer92

Part 1:
I definitely know that Woot's schedule for w00toffs is about a month...and that currently is falling on about the 22nd, 23rd of every month, So when it hits about the 20th I gear up and stay up late a couple of nights to make sure I can get the drop on anything they throw at us at one in the morning...

pattiq

This Woot Off is not in the correct week. There is a mistake here. It is next week I have to work all day and can not play. I predict a major crash for the code monkeys to fix and a resumption next week.

lichme

But you'll have to hurry and think under pressure - we've only got until the end of April's Woot-off to collect clues and evidence! After the woot-off is done, come back and see what we think!

Luckily, I know exactly how long this is. I got some time.

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Part 1. I am John Connor. I know this guy that has access to Time Displacement Equipment. I can see into the future. I have seen the next movie, and it is not good. Rather then saving the world again and making another crappy movie, I have used my powers for the greater good of mankind.

MrsBeny

The winds, they whisper to me. They did so last night. Near the witching hour the first call comes.

"Brriiiiiiiiiing your Vissssssssssaaaaaaaa."

I know now that one of two things has happened. A Woot-off is about to come to fruition, or Walmart has received a new shipment of Monster High Dolls. I must wait. Shortly thereafter comes the clarification.

gwendyw

First, the last woot-off boxes go out in the recycling. Next, the mailman is being pleasant again, and there haven't been any Fed-ex notices stuck on the door for at least two weeks. But the real tell is when the leakfrogs and the screaming monkeys start to chatter for no apparent reason.

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